Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>]

was thinking of various discussions on this list in light of my sept
paper for a linguistics conference: "the syntax and semantics of
sequence: zulu, swahili and biblical hebrew".  i will be arguing for a
modal analysis crosslinguistically, following up on Palmer's cambridge
textbook on mood. the idea is that morphologically, sequential forms
pattern with modality; and syntactically, sequential forms pattern
with modality; and that palmer's analysis appears to be the right sort
of approach, though the precise formal-semantic analysis of sequence
as a combination of mood and tense remains a research project.

cheers
v 
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Dr Vincent DeCaen     <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor
University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1

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